Unless otherwise expressly provided, the following words, for
the purpose of this chapter, shall have the meanings herein indicated:
One or more acts of transporting a passenger or passengers
for hire.
The driving of a taxicab upon the streets, highways, avenues
or public places located within the Village of Walden for the purpose
of soliciting or the plying of prospective passengers for hire.
Any person driving a taxicab for hire upon the streets, highways,
avenues or public places located within the Village of Walden.
The picking up of a passenger for hire within the Village
of Walden, whether such passenger is discharged at a destination within
the Village of Walden or without the Village of Walden. Nothing in
this chapter shall apply to abridge, limit or regulate the right of
any person not licensed hereunder to convey passengers by taxicab
or limousine from points of origin outside the Village of Walden to
points of destination within the Village of Walden or through the
Village of Walden.
Any person owning one or more taxicabs and driving or causing
any such vehicle to be driven upon the streets, highways, avenues
or public places located within the Village of Walden for hire. "Owner"
shall also include a purchaser under a reserve title contract, conditional
sales agreement or vendor's lien agreement and the lessee of
any such vehicle or vehicles.
A person other than the driver who is an occupant of a taxicab.
For the purpose of this chapter, such person or persons shall be presumed
to be a passenger for hire.
An individual, firm, partnership, unincorporated association,
corporation or any other legal entity.
Every motor vehicle, other than a bus or livery, with a seating
capacity of not more than eight passengers exclusive of the driver,
used in the business of transporting passengers for compensation,
and operated in such business under a license issued by the Village
of Walden. It shall not include vehicles which are rented or leased
without a driver.[1]
A public place alongside the curb of a street or elsewhere
which has been so designated by the Village Board.
A fixed base of operation of the owner of a taxicab or limousine.
